Bruce Henderson is a former Marine who focuses custom data mining and visualization technologies on the economy and other disasters.
I have become aware of a website known as Wikileaks, “a place for journalists, truth tellers and everybody else”. Taking a look at the site, it claims to provide an uncensorable system for safe mass document leaking. Ok, there are times when this can be a vital tool to blow open a coverup. They also […]
I wrote a month ago about the formation of a strange new entity called the M-LEC or “Super Conduit”. At that time the main forces behind this were Citibank, JP Morgan / Chas and Bank of America. Once again obscure, seldom mentioned work behind the scenes is having a profound effect upon all of us, […]
Once again we are looking at a strange tidbit of information from a far away corner of the world, and how it can have a substantial impact on the US and world economy. From the Financial Times of London: Fukuda warns on rapid rise in yen The yen is appreciating “too fast” and speculators need […]
Word today that investment company E-Trade is feeling the effects of toxic mortgage and credit portfolio. E-Trade has almost $500 Million exposure to mortgages and other credit investments, known as CDOs. From Market Watch: Shares of E-Trade Financial Corp. lost more than half their value Monday after the company said it faced more subprime-related write-downs […]
At the beginning of the month there was a story in Reuters about distribution problems for fuel in China: China fuel crisis spreads Diesel shortages in China’s political heart, which escaped previous supply crunches unscathed, highlight tensions between the government and its increasingly independent oil firms about who should pay for the country’s generous fuel […]
Europe has undergone significant changes in the past 20 years: The formation of the European Union (EU) as a political force, and the steady move towards a more secular progressive mind-set and society. For many Americans, the countries of Europe represent an ideal that we should strive for. Within the EU, there are really few […]
Last week I commented on how courage, heroism and American self-reliance was on full display last week as the area faced its most wide-spread disaster in at least a generation. As the weeks go forward we are going to read dozens of stories about people who saw a chance to make a difference and did […]
This one is a goodie. I am trying to figure out if someone is being serious here or if this is just a really good joke about the pot-bellied transvestite Elvis impersonator who is running North Korea. It includes such notables as: Korea is well on the way to the great national reunification under the […]
When this happened it was far less interesting than what we were covering here, but this one was quite alarming to me. From the Federal Times: The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s deputy administrator, Harvey Johnson, had an unusually friendly audience at an Oct. 23 news briefing on his agency’s response to the California wildfires: his […]
2008 Election? Wake Me Next November
I cannot begin to express my dismay at the fact the 2008 presidential race started the day after the 2006 mid-term elections wrapped. Seriously, 2006 was stupid enough without being placed on the conveyor belt of nonsense that passes for news coverage, breathless with every aspect of this so-called “race”. One of the big draws […]
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